America's Child

"America's Child is not only a chronicle of the sixties, it's a book of interior and exterior voyages, a book of transformations, a courageous, honest and illuminating book."-Claribel Alegr?a America's Child is the story of the journey of a child of first-generation immigrant parents from a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia to the mythic avenues of 1940s Hollywood, through the transformative years of Berkeley, to the avant-garde art world of New York, to a Cuban movie theater filled with Vietnamese students and the turbulence of the sixties. Susan Sherman's journey, during a period in which the world was in ferment and large sections of the population were engaged in active self-examination and agitating for social change, is one of discovery and introspection. From the cultural renaissance of the late 1950s, through the sexual revolution, to political activism that starts with world issues and ends with struggles around sexism and homophobia, America's Child is simultaneously cultural history, social discourse, and a deeply personal narrative. Poet, playwright, and founding editor of Ikon magazine, Susan Sherman has published three collections of poetry, a translation, and The Color of the Heart (Curbstone Press). America's Child was completed thanks to the help of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction Literature, a Puffin Foundation grant, and a residency at Blue Mountain Center.Sherman, Susan is the author of 'America's Child', published 2007 under ISBN 9781931896351 and ISBN 1931896356.